Comment on What is your favourite gaming console you have played?

hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I love the Steam Deck, but wouldn’t count it as a console.

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    It’s not a console in the traditional sense, where it has its own way of making games and has exclusive games, but it’s definitely meant to be a console like experience. In that regard, I would say it’s a non-traditional console.

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    • thingsiplay@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I am aware of the issues categorizing these devices and I actually agree with you. I like saying its a Console like Handheld PC. It is a PC in handheld form factor, with an operating system optimized and build for Console like experience. This gets even more complicated if we put a Linux operating system on the Playstation 5 and just play Steam games on it, as the hardware itself is basically a PC.

      I just don’t think the Steam Deck (and Steam Machine even more) belongs to a discussion about favorite game console in example. This is purely my personal opinion and don’t mean that everyone has to believe and think I what I do, so don’t get me wrong.

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